African Silences

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<i>African Silences</i>is a spellbinding and sobering journey through Africas ravaged wildernesses. In 1978 and again in 1986, Matthiessen travelled through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Zaire and the Central African Republic to examine the fate of West African wildlife.<i>African Silences</i>shows Matthiessen at his best, taking the reader on hair-raising flights over forest and savanna, high-speed dashes by car along dirt roads, and slow journeys by river boat and jungle track, to encounter rare and endangered animals elephants, gorillas and rhinos amongst them and the wildlife biologists who study and attempt to protect them.

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<b>Peter Matthiessen</b>was a naturalist, explorer and writer. His works of fiction include<i>At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga</i>and the acclaimed 'Watson Trilogy'. His explorations resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them<i>The Snow Leopard, The Cloud Forest</i>and<i>The Tree where Man was Born</i>. He died in 2014, aged 86.

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